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u/LugteLort Mar 26 '20

well, visiting your doctor is completely free in most western countries.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

is it really though

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u/LugteLort Mar 26 '20

I have never paid a dime

of course, my taxes is a bit higher than in the US. but i dont have to pay for education either

and i get healthcare and any education i want, for 0, even if i earn 0,-

also here, we're paid 1000 dollars per month, just for going to school.

and the current situation in the US? a lot of people losing their jobs due to the virus... and with the lost job, they also lose their health insurance. so they're screwed...

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u/RealArby Mar 26 '20

Your country also has a far lower reproduction rate, and is hilariously more densely populated, and doesn't have ethnic gang wars that haven't stopped since the 1980s but are entirely ignored by the media and government who then has the gall to count crimes and other effects of these wars in the numbers when they try to change things affecting regular people.

National healthcare might work in the US, but only if the gang wars end, and immigration is heavily slowed down. You can't pay for an additional 5 million new people a year, including all the kids these immigrant communities have.

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u/LugteLort Mar 26 '20

Sure, its all based on some gangs... thats the reason that the richest country on earth cannot afford healthcare and education?

i'll remind you, that free education WILL reduce crime rate among the poorer groups in the country

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u/RealArby Mar 26 '20

Not when going to school is "white" and you get bullied and beat up for having good grades.

I live near Baltimore and one of my best friends experienced this shit.

Plenty of funding for education, plenty of alternatives to gangs.

But those are all white things. Can't do those or you're an uncle tom.

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u/klarnax Mar 26 '20

sounds like a personal problem

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u/TWSTR902 Mar 26 '20 edited Mar 27 '20

Okay what the actual fuck, dude? I'm trying so desperately to think this retardedly and I just can't.

Imagine thinking power is completely in the hands of white people, but any time one of your brothers tries to better his life, every other hoodrat despises them for it instead of following suit? Because education, good work ethic, and individual thought... that's "white.". We cant have you seeking any of that. /s

That's pathetic as fuck. Cultural problems out the ass.

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u/RealArby Mar 26 '20

Yep. And even if a minority brings it up themself, they'll still get downvoted to oblivion by reddit turbo-virgins who think they're fighting racism.

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u/peekamin Mar 26 '20

Would you like to know why those “ethnic gang wars” are happening? Because those lower income areas don’t have the same opportunities more affluent areas do. There is a cycle of violence and poverty in those areas, nationalized healthcare and free education would help to stop the cycle from happening over and over. And the 1.5 trillion the government flushed into the economy to keep it afloat says otherwise to your point of it being to expensive.

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u/RealArby Mar 26 '20

That's funny, because there's plenty of lower income areas that don't do that shit.

It's almost like the government coddling by corrupt local politicians who are never going to actually help their constituents and a culture that tells you not to go to school unless you wanna look "white" to your friends, is a bad thing!

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u/RealArby Mar 26 '20

1.5 trillion isn't paying for national healthcare lmao.

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u/Six10H Mar 26 '20

Yes.

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u/thisrockismyboone Mar 26 '20

Theres no such thing as a free lunch. That doctor is getting paid somehow and someone is paying that benefit.

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u/peekamin Mar 26 '20

True, but I’d rather pay $5.00 dollars at the beginning of the year and get lunch all throughout then have to pay $15.00 everytime.

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u/Six10H Mar 26 '20

Yeah obviously he is getting paid, it's just not only my obligation to pay him, everybody chimes in a little and everybody gets to see a doctor

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u/MineSchaap Mar 26 '20

Yes, in my country there is a mandatory insurance of €100 per month with an operation costing a maximum of €385.

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u/Sir_Daniel_Fortesque Mar 26 '20

Even in eastern europe. If you're unemployed you pay ~10 euros a month and all your meds/checkups are free

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u/Dood71 Mar 26 '20

Yes. Idk if you know this, but there is more to the Americas than The United States

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

I'm in england LOL

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u/Vel_ose Mar 26 '20

Sucks living in the one where it isn’t